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Among the 44 proposals or propositions handed to Pope Benedict at the conclusion of the two-week Mid-East Synod are the following which I ve selected because they are interesting important surprising or concrete Call for attention The attention of the whole world should be focused on the

At the time of Pope Benedict s September visit to the UK the Archbishop of Canterbury joked that he and the Pope had two things in common a fondness for cats and a keenness to recruit Anglican clergy Travelling in India this past week Dr Rowan Williams has had plenty of interesting things to sa

A good friend of mine nbsp recently told me that he had seen the new Clint Eastwood movie Hereafter which focuses on questions of the afterlife nbsp I asked my friend a spiritual director what he thought of the film s portrayal of heaven and he just shrugged his shoulders nbsp Well he s

Cambridge MA Several weeks back I wrote about medieval Cistercian monk John of Ford rsquo s reading of the last verse of the Song of Songs ldquo Flee my beloved and become like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices rdquo My point mdash nbsp and I am not sure I convinced an

Check out the brief NPR interview with National Catholic Reporter s John Allen about the batch of new cardinals named by Pope Benedict and what it may mean for the future of the Church In short probably nothing dramatic Allen says the announcement would be like a midterm election in which all the